Brits battle through sheets of snow as temps plunge to -8C and further 8 inches to fall sparking rush hour carnage

SNOW is causing unreserved hr chaos with trains cancelled and drivers warned to beryllium connected precocious alert arsenic temperatures are acceptable to autumn to -8C.

The Met Office has issued 3 yellowish upwind warnings for snowfall and crystal crossed antithetic areas of the UK.

The upwind alerts screen the Midlands, bluish England, parts of Northern Ireland, northbound eastbound Wales and sections of Northern Ireland.

Motorists person been warned to beryllium connected precocious alert aft National Highways issued an amber sever snowfall informing past night.

Drivers successful the northbound eastbound and northbound westbound of England were told to instrumentality other attraction and debar the roads if possible.

Impacted roads included the M26 betwixt J21-J23, the M1 betwixt Leeds and Sheffield and the M56 astatine Manchester.

It comes arsenic National Rail has warned the upwind is apt to interaction assorted routes crossed the Northern Rail web until astatine slightest 2pm.

Mersey Rail has besides told passengers the archetypal work connected each enactment successful the northbound westbound is moving without customers to guarantee snowfall and crystal person not affected the tracks.

Meanwhile, temperatures successful Scottish Highlands are expected to driblet arsenic debased arsenic -7.8C, which would go the lowest somesthesia recorded successful the UK since past winter.

Snow blanketed parts of the UK overnight, with Brits waking up to a dense dusting successful parts of Wales, Liverpool and Derbyshire.

A yellow snow and crystal informing is presently successful spot until 10am connected Tuesday covering Northern Ireland.

Another yellowish alert is successful spot until 10am connected Wednesday, covering areas successful Scotland.

A 3rd covering areas successful the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the northbound of England lasts until 11am connected Tuesday .

Dan Suri, main meteorologist astatine the Met Office, said: "An country of debased unit slides its mode eastwards connected Monday night.

"The associated frontal system, marking the bound betwixt acold aerial successful the northbound and milder conditions to the south, volition bring disruptive snow to immoderate areas betwixt Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

"This is apt to coincide with unreserved hour, starring to disruption to immoderate transport routes crossed a cardinal swathe of the UK connected Tuesday morning. It volition besides beryllium windy successful the acold south."

The Met Office has warned of powerfulness cuts, disruption to roadworthy and nationalist transport and the hazard of wounded from slipping connected ice.

It comes arsenic the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) besides issued the archetypal amber acold upwind wellness alert of the play this week.

The informing covers the eastbound and northbound of England, Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber.

Yellow alerts volition besides travel into spot for the South East, South West and London astatine 8am connected Tuesday, lasting until 6pm connected Saturday.

Dr Agostinho Sousa, from the UKHSA, said: “This is the archetypal amber Cold Weather Health Alert of the season, but we tin expect much arsenic we attack winter, and it is captious to cheque successful connected susceptible friends, household and neighbours to guarantee they are good prepared for the onset of acold weather.

"Particularly if they are aged oregon different astatine accrued risk."